Global solvability and blow up for the convective Cahn-Hilliard equations with concave potentials

Abstract

We study initial boundary value problems for the convective Cahn-Hilliard equation $\Dt u +\px^4u +u\px u+\px^2(|u|^pu)=0$. It is well-known that without the convective term, the solutions of this equation may blow up in finite time for any $p>0$. In contrast to that, we show that the presence of the convective term $u\px u$ in the Cahn-Hilliard equation prevents blow up at least for $0<p<\frac49$. We also show that the blowing up solutions still exist if $p$ is large enough ($p\ge2$). The related equations like Kolmogorov-Sivashinsky-Spiegel equation, sixth order convective Cahn-Hilliard equation, are also considered.